Meg McKinlay

Meg McKinlay grew up in Bendigo, Victoria. She has worked a variety of jobs including swim instructor, tour guide, translator and teacher. She is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Western Australia, where she has taught Australian Literature, Japanese, and Creative Writing. Meg divides her time between teaching and writing. Her books include Duck for a Day, The Truth About Penguins, Annabel, again, Surface Tension, which won the Best Young Fiction category of the 2012 Davitt Awards. Her book A Single Stone won a Queensland Literary Award 2015 in the Children's category. It also won the 2015 Aurealis Awards Best Children's Fiction. In 2016, it won the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction.